On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 13:02 -0700, John Smith wrote:
> I have a large database (multiple TBs) where I'd like to be able to do
> a backup/restore of just a particular table (call it foo). Because
> the database is large, the time for a full backup would be
> prohibitive. Also, whatever backup mechanism we do use needs to keep
> the system online (i.e., users must still be allowed to update table
> foo while we're taking the backup).
Have a look at pg_snapclone. It's specifically designed to significantly
improve dump times for very large objects.
http://pgfoundry.org/projects/snapclone/
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Simon Riggs
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